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The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
 List Price: $6.95 DescriptionThirteen-year-old Cassie Palmer, the seventh child of a seventh child, has inherited the gift of second sight. Unsure whether or not she even believes in ghosts, Cassie heads to the cemetery to test her ability to communicate with the Other World. She starts with the departed spirit of a harmless child: CHARLOTTE EMMA ELIZABETH WEBB, BORN 1840 DIED 1847. But when a mysterious man appears, Cassie finds a new companion. Is he a gravedigger? A bum? Or did Cassie's inexperience cause her to bring back Charlotte's frightening neighbor: DEVERILL 1720 - 1762?
Stranger at the Window
 List Price: $4.95 DescriptionLesley, who is recovering from an illness at her aunt's home while her mother is in Egypt, is convinced she's seen a frightened child peering out of the attic window of the house next door. When she confronts her neighbors and learns about their secret castaway, she becomes involved in their desperate attempt to keep him from the authorities. As Lesley and her neighbors struggle to provide a safe haven for a stranger in a strange land, they begin to understand their own strengths, as well as their own limitations.Customer ReviewsMean, arrogant Victoria, yet loving & caring.....Eleven-year-old Lesley, who is recovering from hepatitis, is at her aunt's home in London while her mother is working in Cairo,Egypt. Lesley is convinced she has seen a frightened child peering out of the attic window of the house next door. When she confronts her neighbors (Christopher, Robert & Victoria) and learns about their secret castaway, Lesley becomes involved in their desperate attempt to keep him from the authorities. The author did an excellent job in developing the character of 14-year-old Victoria. The reading level of the book is grades 5 to 8. The book requires a very mature reader to understand the political consequences of harboring an illegal immigrant. I highly recommend this story for both children and young adults... Eleven year old Lesley is still recovering from a serious illness (Hepititis) and so she isn't able to travel to Egypt when her mother takes a temporary job there. So Lesley goes to live with her elderly Auntie Amy in London for the summer. Auntie Amy is very kind to Lesley, but never having had any children of her own, is not quite sure what to do with Lesley, and so she leaves Lesley alone a lot while she works in her sewing room. Lesley is still recovering from her illness so she mostly watches the neighbors from her bedroom window or her aunt's back yard. Until she notices a little boy's face peeping out of the neighbor's attic window, and her curiosity pushes her into investigating what the children next door are hiding in the attic. At first Lesley doesn't like the three older Harwood children who live next door to her aunt, but she comes to see them in a different light when she is drawn into their efforts to help a young boy who has entered the country illegally. I buy a lot of books for my own child, and all my nieces and nephews, but I read all the stories first to make sure they are not only age appropriate, but interesting and written in a way that is easy to follow. I highly recommend this book for both children and young adults. THE STRANGERS THAT CAME TO TOWN REVIEW THE STRANGERS THAT CAME TO TOWN WAS A GREAT BOOK. iT WAS ABOUT A YOUNG 11 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO HAS TO STAY WITH HER AUNT IN LONDON WHILE HER MOTHER IS AWAY WORKING IN EGYPT. LESLEY IS LONELY AND TRIES TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE TEENAGERS NEXT DOOR. THEY HAVE NO INTREST IN HER. THEN SHE INSISTS THAT SHE SEES A YOUNG BOY IN THEIR ATTIC. THEY SAY SHE IS IMAGINING AND ITS PROBABLY HER SICKNESS. SHE WAS RIGHT THERE WAS SOMEONE HIDING THERE. AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IS HIDING THERE. WHEN THEY ARE IN GREAT RISK OF THERE BROTHER TELLING ON THEM LESLEY STARTS HELPING. VICTORIA IS MEAN ROBERT IS NICE AND CHRISTOPHER JUST DIDNT THINK THAT THEY SHOULD KEEP ERRI THE IMMIGRANT. SOONER LESLEY FINDS VICTORIA A NICE GIRL AND FINDS OUT SHE LIKES ROBERT. LATER VICTORIA MAKES LESLEY HER HONORARY SISTER, AND ROBERT KISSED HER, CLAMING IT WAS ONLY A BROTHERLY KISS WHEN VICTORIA PROTESTED. SHE SAID LESLEY WAS TOO YOUNG FOR HIM TO PRACTICE ON. HE SAID HE DIDNT NEED PRACTICE AND ASKED LESLIE. SHE BLUSHED AND HE LAUGHED. THAT IS THE KIND OF STORY THIS IS. I HOPE YOU READ IT AND LIKE IT. ITS A GREAT STORY. Must Read The book Stranger at the Window is a book about a young boy who has to hide places in houses because he is a illegal immigrant. I think the book is exciting because you never know what is going to happen next. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes an interesting and exciting book.
The Red-Eared Ghosts
 List Price: $4.95 DescriptionMary Frewin tried to act and look like any other child, but what kept her separated from her classmates was that she could see ghosts -- red-eared ghosts. Recently two of those forms -- a thin man and his large wolflike dog -- seemed particularly interested in young Mary Frewin. "Alcock leavens this fantasy with generous doses of her usual sly wit, raising it a cut above other time-travel tales. . . . This clever story is full of unexpected developments and lively unusual characters. . . . Grand fun." -- Kirkus ReviewsCustomer ReviewsIt was a funny and interesting book. I liked the book.The book was The Red Eared Ghosts. A girl named Mary is confused. She clames she can see ghosts. Everyone thinks she is crazy. Her mom can't see the ghosts but her grandmother could, just as she can. When she goes to see where her grandmother disappeared she ends up in a new world. What will happen to Mary when she doesn't know where she is and doesn't know anyone? It was a boring book at some parts! The beggining of the book caught my interest but the middle got dragged out and got boring but the end caught my interest once again. All in all it was an OK book. mysterious A girl named Mary Frewin has a great great grandmother namedMary Coram. Mary Frewin looks alot like her great greatgrandmother.Mary Frewin is transformed somehow into another world. How will she ever get back to her own world? a good read, but a bit dull in parts I enjoyed reading this book, but some parts didn't fit together well. It was somewhat boring in the middle, but picked up in the end. Over all a "solid" read
The Trial of Anna Cotman
 List Price: $6.95 DescriptionNew in town, Anna Cotman wants nothing more than to find a friend. But when bossy Lindy Miller persuades her to join her older brother's secret society, Anna becomes uneasy. She knows that beneath the secret codes, strange rituals, and frightening masks, the society is just a game. But when Anna breaks the rules and is threatened with punishment, she finds the game has gotten seriously out of hand.Customer Reviews"Faces are Masks Enough..."Anna Cotman is a sweet, pretty, vulnerable girl who has just moved to Redmarsh with her grandmother and facing the first trials of a new school, making friends and adjusting to her new life. But luck isn't on her side, and Lindy Miller snaps her up at school: "a bossy girl, quick to quarrel and slow to forgive." After running through her own friends, she looks upon newly arrived Anna as a blessing and quickly snaps her up, announcing "you're my best friend." Anna is delighted and eager to please, which is how she gets caught up with initiation into the club known as the Society of Masks (or the Som for short). Started by Lindy's brother Jeremy Miller and including all of his school friends, the Som is designed to prevent bullies and provide comradeship, including all the codenames, secret passwords, elaborate rites and junk food feasts that you'd expect from such a club. Of course, Jeremy didn't want his little sister to be a part of it, but his stepfather (who gives him the key to the abandoned factory in which they have their meetings) insists that they all be involved. And so Lindy is allowed, as is one of her friends, and Anna makes the vow of loyalty to the Som. At first she is happy - she's is accepted, she has a friend, and she's under the protection of the popular Jeremy Miller, who wears a golden mask at meetings and is known as the Goldmaster - she's in awe. But a friendship with Lindy has its costs; she is manipulative, jealous, spiteful and extremely difficult to get along with. But Anna has been raised to keep her promises and be loyal to her friends - despite her reluctance; she is now a part of the Som. And then things begin to go very bad. More people are initiated into the club - people that aren't school children and who control and bully the younger kids. On top of this, they never take off their masks. The Yellow Lord in particular makes life difficult for Anna, forcing her to do several menial chores about the place. Soon the youngest children are being forced to shoplift and work themselves to exhaustion. Anna wants to tell, but she can't - she's sworn an oath of secrecy. Finally the catalyst comes - Anna stands up for one of the smallest members of the club and is labelled a traitor as a result. She is to be put on trial before the Som, and with more and more sinister goings-on at the factory, the Goldmaster himself under the influence of alcohol, and Lindy seemingly abandoning her, poor Anna is almost in a state of nervous collapse as the trial date moves closer and closer. "The Trial of Anna Cotman" is absolutely riveting, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and a book that should be on every child's reading list. Vivien Alcock creates an incredible and realistic story, with perfect representations of bullying, insecure friendships, corruption and values among children, and the small seed of evil that can germinate in groups that rely on secrecy, control and unquestioning loyalty - in many ways it is a "Lord of the Flies" for younger readers. Alcock creates many memorable characters, and I'm certain that almost everybody in their lives has known a Lindy; she is vividly portrayed as the girl on the playground who has to have it *her* way, who is never to blame for the misfortunes inflicted upon her, and who is a master at dissembling and fibbing. Likewise is the sad reality of her family - a distant mother, a woebegone stepfather and a perfect elder brother that is everything Lindy wants to be - and isn't. There are other perfect little portrayals of human character and behaviour in Tom Smith, the friendly best friend of Jeremy who tries to help, and Peter Elkin, the petrified boy under the power of the malevolent Yellow Lord. Speaking of which, the Yellow Lord is certain to give anyone nightmares... Anna Cotman herself is a thoroughly likeable, intelligent young girl, who has been raised the best way, but put into the wrong situation. Taught to be loving and forgiving, she's the perfect tool for Lindy and the Som to manipulate, but eventually learning to stand up for herself and the injustices of the Som. This is a terrific book, meticulously displaying the interactions between children and adults, the shadowy world that children can create for themselves, and the strength that they can display when faced with corruption of the system. Some of Alcock's insights into the lives of children made me gasp with their accuracy - this is an author that remembers what it was like to be a child, and the very real existence of a playground hierarchy. "Faces are Masks Enough..." Anna Cotman is a sweet, pretty, vulnerable girl who has just moved to Redmarsh with her grandmother and facing the first trials of a new school, making friends and adjusting to her new life. But luck isn't on her side, and Lindy Miller snaps her up at school: "a bossy girl, quick to quarrel and slow to forgive." After running through her own friends, she looks upon newly arrived Anna as a blessing and quickly snaps her up, announcing "you're my best friend." Anna is delighted and eager to please, which is how she gets caught up with initiation into the club known as the Society of Masks (or the Som for short). Started by Lindy's brother Jeremy Miller and including all of his school friends, the Som is designed to prevent bullies and provide comradeship, including all the codenames, secret passwords, elaborate rites and junk food feasts that you'd expect from such a club. Of course, Jeremy didn't want his little sister to be a part of it, but his stepfather (who gives him the key to the abandoned factory in which they have their meetings) insists that they all be involved. And so Lindy is allowed, as is one of her friends, and Anna makes the vow of loyalty to the Som. At first she is happy - she's is accepted, she has a friend, and she's under the protection of the popular Jeremy Miller, who wears a golden mask at meetings and is known as the Goldmaster - she's in awe. But a friendship with Lindy has its costs; she is manipulative, jealous, spiteful and extremely difficult to get along with. But Anna has been raised to keep her promises and be loyal to her friends - despite her reluctance; she is now a part of the Som. And then things begin to go very bad. More people are initiated into the club - people that aren't school children and who control and bully the younger kids. On top of this, they never take of their masks. The Yellow Lord in particular makes life difficult for Anna, forcing her to do several menial chores about the place. Soon the youngest children are being forced to shoplift and work themselves to exhaustion. Anna wants to tell, but she can't - she's sworn an oath of secrecy. Finally the catalyst comes - Anna stands up for one of the smallest members of the club and is labelled a traitor as a result. She is to be put on trial before the Som, and with more and more sinister goings-on at the factory, the Goldmaster himself under the influence of alcohol, and Lindy seemingly abandoning her, poor Anna is almost in a state of nervous collapse as the trial date moves closer and closer. "The Trial of Anna Cotman" is absolutely riveting, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and a book that should be on every child's reading list. Vivien Alcock creates an incredible and realistic story, with perfect representations of bullying, insecure friendships, corruption and values among children, and the small seed of evil that can germinate in groups that rely on secrecy, control and unquestioning loyalty - in many ways it is a "Lord of the Flies" for younger readers. Alcock creates many memorable characters, and I'm certain that almost everybody in their lives has known a Lindy; she is vividly portrayed as the girl on the playground who has to have it *her* way, who is never to blame for the misfortunes inflicted upon her, and who is a master at dissembling and fibbing. Likewise is the sad reality of her family - a distant mother, a woebegone stepfather and a perfect elder brother that is everything Lindy wants to be - and isn't. There are other perfect little portrayals of human character and behaviour in Tom Smith, the friendly best friend of Jeremy who tries to help, and Peter Elkin, the petrified boy under the power of the malevolent Yellow Lord. Speaking of which, the Yellow Lord is certain to give anyone nightmares... Anna Cotman herself is a thoroughly likeable, intelligent young girl, who has been raised the best way, but put into the wrong situation. Taught to be loving and forgiving, she's the perfect tool for Lindy and the Som to manipulate, but eventually learning to stand up for herself and the injustices of the Som. This is a terrific book, meticulously displaying the interactions between children and adults, the shadowy world that children can create for themselves, and the strength that they can display when faced with corruption of the system. Some of Alcock's insights into the ways and minds of children made me gasp with their accuracy - this is a woman that remembers what it was like to be a child and the hierarchy of the playground. A book you can't put down This book is great! The first time I started to read, I couldn't finish. It is about a girl who goes to a new town. The snotty Libby declares the new girl, (Anna Cotman) her best friend. Libbys brother has a club and they let Anna join. in the biggining, the club seems fun. But when time goes on, a world of problems is opened up. Wow :) I recently re-read this book and didn't find it as interesting as I once did, but of course that's because I'm not ten years old anymore. However it is an excellent book for younger people, and it's not such a bad idea for "adults" to read either. It tackles issues like friendship, betrayal, addiction, struggle to fit in, using a very unique setting. The world is that of any adolescent, but has been made dark and frightening by a "game" gotten out of hand. The Society of Masks is intriguing, color-coded and led by "lords" who impose tasks and duties upon the lower-ranking "companions". It takes the reader to a different world, despite the fact that it's only some kids with some masks in an abandoned shop. The trial scene is strangely symbolic, and the ending is perfect (a rare thing for me to say, as I never like the ending of a book). Read!! ~Raksh:) A kind of dark book This is a different, creative book that could be kind of dark for a children's book. The plot is interesting, when a new girl, desperate for friends, joins up with a girl who is in a secret club. The club bosses Anna (the new girl) around for a time, until more members are introduced. When Anna is put on trial for sticking up for a younger member, the action starts to pick up. Overall I liked the book, although in some parts it is a little bit slow-moving, but the author makes up for it by adding suspense, like the part when Anna is made to sit on the roof to spy on one of the club's leaders. It has a dark side to it, when kids start taking their own "secret societies" a little too seriously. The characters are extremely well-developed and I really cared about some and hated others. I definitely recommend this book.
Travelers by Night
List Price: $2.95 DescriptionDetermined to save an old elephant from the slaughterhouse, two circus children kidnap the animal and begin a dangerous journey, traveling by night across the English countryside to a safari park where they hope to find the elephant a home.Customer ReviewsA wonderful children's adventure story. Well written.Involves two youngsters in a defunct circus who attempt to save the life of an old elephant. Well written. Suitable for children of ten or older I think; can be read to younger ones. A DirectoryForeign exchange news and charts. Find all FOREX data online.
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